Urgent for shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi friends,

I am working as a DataStage developer. I need help in writing shell script.
I have following file and I want to remove data from 1st field and store it into other file.

Convert this file,

A100 Tylenol 100mg
A100 PCML 500mg
B120 CFDR 250mg
C345 PFLX 600mg

remove 1st column data to

Tylenol 100mg
PCML 500mg
CFDR 250mg
PFLX 600mg

can anyone help me?

thanks
sunny

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awk '{print $2,$3} ' sunny
Tylenol 100mg
PCML 500mg
CFDR 250mg
PFLX 600mg
3

maybe this is what you wanted??

#> cat sunny
A100 Tylenol 100mg
A100 PCML 500mg
B120 CFDR 250mg
C345 PFLX 600mg
#> awk '{print $1 > "sunny.out"} ; {print $2,$3} ' sunny
Tylenol 100mg
PCML 500mg
CFDR 250mg
PFLX 600mg
#> cat sunny.out
A100
A100
B120
C345
4

thanks for the solution timj123.

this work if i have know number of columns, what if i don't know how many columns are in this file. this file is ftped to us everyday and i have to remove 1st field data from the file. It may possible that number of columns will be different each time

let me know ur input.

thanks
sunny

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 2:39pm # cat data
A100 Tylenol 100mg
A100 PCML 500mg
B120 CFDR 250mg
C345 PFLX 600mg
 2:39pm # awk '{print $1 > "data.OUT"} ; {a=""; for (i=2;i<=NF;i++) {a=a $i " "} print a} ' data > data.OK
 2:40pm # cat data.OK
Tylenol 100mg
PCML 500mg
CFDR 250mg
PFLX 600mg
 2:40pm # cat data.OUT
A100
A100
B120
C345